Also listed on Easic Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 12, 2025 (Barclays Bank PLC).
Term ends Feb 14, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 11, 2032
Held by Altera Corporation
Filed Oct 11, 2012 as application 13/649,529 · Granted May 5, 2015
Base term plus 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012
Term ends
Feb 14, 2033
Feb 14, 2033
Granted
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
126
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 126 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 11, 2012, when this application, 13/649,529, was filed | Oct 11, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +126 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 14, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 14, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,024,657 | this patent Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2013/064371 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2013 Reel 29720, frame 674 | Andreev, Alexander; Scepanovic, Ranko L.; Pavisic, Ivan; Yahontov, Alexander; Udovikhin, Mikhail; Vikhliantsev, Igor; Lim, Chong-teik; Lee, Seow-sung; Kung, Chee-wei | Easic Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 11, 2019 Reel 48559, frame 162 | Easic Corporation | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 19, 2024 Reel 66353, frame 886 | Intel Corporation | Altera Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 12, 2025 Reel 73431, frame 309 | Altera Corporation | Barclays Bank PLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2033
Term ends Feb 14, 2033.
Note
The 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
212
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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